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  • 503 1  -  Elisia Yeo Secret intercepts tell a chilling tale by elisia@newstoday.cora.sg AS the first trial concerning massacres in East Timor gets underway, an Australian newspaper has detailed a deadly covert operation that was launched to sabotage the former Indonesian territory's independence vote in 1999. The report is based on
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  • 138 1  -  Joy Frances KNOWING one's partner means knowing when to stay out of her path. A new-fangled Internet tool launched yesterday can help bring men one step closer to understanding the female psyche through hormonal patterns. Called Megg, the world's first wireless hormonal mapping system
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 190 2 HONG KONG Singapore opposition leader Chee Soon Juan said yesterday he was certain to be declared bankrupt in his latest legal battle with the Government. He said he could not afford to fight defamation suits filed by Prime Minister Goh
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    • 398 2  -  Val Chua Building a brand requires consistency by val@newstoday.com.sg WHAT'S in a brand? Just this: At home and abroad, people recognise the Singapore Girl more than they do the Singapore flag. The story of how a brand was built was told yesterday by Mr J Y
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    • 188 2 Channel News Asia THE National Steering Committee formed to chart the direction of inter-racial confidence circles (IRCCs) will set up 37 constituency-based IRCCs by early April and the rest by July. Each constituency will have one IRCC, which will form harmony circles. "While the IRCCs will
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    • 113 2  -  Serene Foo LOCAL comedians Jack Neo and Mark Lee will soon be co-hosting a variety programme with top Taiwanese compere Jacky Wu. Entitled Jacky Jack Show, it is a large-scale talent search for those with a flair for acting, singing, dancing, hosting and composing songs. The
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    • 210 2  -  -Joy Frances EAST magazine has bid its readers a sudden farewell. Bogged down by cash flow problems, the three-year-old magazine's February issue was its last "I'm upset about the way it closed, very abruptly, without warning the staff or public. Some of
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    • 197 2  -  Tan Hui Leng OVER 200 Ministry of Law (MinLaw) employees yesterday went on an unusual quest for creative ideas. They spent six hours roaming around Singapore, performing a series of tasks meant to fuel their creative juices in the inaugural
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    • 224 3 TOKYO A powerful lawmaker, whose feud with former Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka led to her unceremonious sacking in January, ended his political career in disgrace yesterday. Mr Muneo Suzuki (picture) gave up his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) membership after a meeting with the party's ethics
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    • 93 3 MANILA Several more suspected Jemaah Islamiyah 01) terrorists have been arrested in the Philippines. The Philippines Star said eight were arrested, including a Japanese member, while other reports say three Indonesians Agus Dwirkana, Tamsil Linrung and Abdul Jammal Balsas had been arrested. The three were intercepted at
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    • 387 3 Agencies Temple-building ceremonial march ends peacefully NEW DELHI A massive effort on the part of Indian police and officials helped preserve peace in India yesterday as Hindus marched in Ayodhya, threatening to build a temple at a site where once a mosque stood. About 10,000 Hindus
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    • 131 3 -AFP JAKARTA It's the season to spill the beans in Jakarta and yesterday was former President Abdurrahman Wahid's turn. He said as many as 10 Indonesian political parties accepted unauthorised campaign funds before the 1999 general election. Gus Dur, as the former President is popularly-known,
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    • 172 3  -  Lee Yew Meng THE Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) will launch a new commercial "white" site at Sinaran Drive at the end of the month. It has received a commitment from a developer who is willing to bid at a price of not less than $77.8 million for
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    • 210 3 Reuters WASHINGTON Accounting firm Andersen's future was further thrown into doubt after it was slapped with charges of obstructing justice in the Enron debacle. The US Justice Department alleged that the firm's partners began a plan for the wholesale destruction of Enron-related documents just days after
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    • 208 3 -AFP WASHINGTON It took a blunt message from US Secretary of State Colin Powell to force Israel to withdraw from the Palestinian West Bank town of Ramallah yesterday. Mr Powell telephoned Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Tuesday to demand the withdrawal, the New York
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    • 331 4 Full economic recovery is some way off: PM Goh SINGAPORE is not out of the woods, as far as unemployment is concerned. A report released by the Ministry of Manpower yesterday said that the unemployment rate is expected to reach about 5.5 to 6 per cent by
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    • 208 4  -  lan De Cotta IN a show of confidence that the travel industry is nursing its way back to health, Singapore Airlines (SIA) announced yesterday that it will fly to Las Vegas via Hong Kong from Aug 2. The announcement was made jointly with the city's
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  • LETTERS
    • 271 4  -  Gan Han Sing Choke collars for dogs are not painful I REFER to the article, "Torture Training" (Today, March 15). The article seems lopsided in its emphasis it places all handlers and trainers who use the choke collar method for training in a very bad light I
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    • 189 4  -  Chan Miang Boon I REFER to the letter, "All that trouble for 70 cents" (Today, March 13). Our sincere apologies to Mr Ng Tat Keong for the inconvenience. From the start of the selective preview, only selected bus services are commissioned to accept the
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 302 6 Bloomberg Centrepoint's $1b launch may spur others to do likewise FOR the second time in five months, a Singapore developer is trying to sell real estate to stock market investors. Centrepoint Properties' bankers say they found a way to succeed where CapitaLand failed. Singapore's largest mall
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    • 170 6 Channel News Asia OCBC Bank expects to find a new chief executive before September, to replace Mr Alex Au. That is according to Mr J Y Pillay, executive chairman of the Singapore Exchange and chairman of OCBC's nominating committee that is tasked with
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    • Market Watch
      • 141 6 THE suspension of UOB and its two finance units Overseas Union Trust and Industrial and Commercial Bank raised speculation that they would be privatised in a move to increase the group's operating and capital efficiency. Dealers quipped that clients were apparently taking UOB's restructuring to mean that the divestment
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      • 59 6 By volume Stocks '000 ECS 21,620 Ipco 14,685 Sing Tel 13,594 Food Empire 12,608 LafeTech 12,368 Stocks '000 JurTech 12,184 UniFood 9,411 Horizon 9,402 lonics 8,745 Pac Cent 8,653 By value Stocks Value OCBC 27,635,600 DBS 27,548,974 Sing Tel 22,240,480 SPH 20,523,685 ECS 16,754,330 Stocks Value Chartered
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      • 70 6 MarlS OCBC Close Change 13.300 +0.300 ieaview 6.900 +0.300 OUE 6.900 +0.150 Haw Par 4.200 +0.120 fcean 2OOUSS 8.100 +0.100 >IA 14.100 +0.100 F&N 7.750 +0.100 1)01 Frek iemb Log 3.000 +0.080 0.780 +0.075 2.280 +0.060 By percentage Mar IS Close Changi BonvestsW*****5 0.020+33.33: HceDyn 0.170 +30.76'
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      • 80 6 Mar 15 Close Change IS DJ USTECH10USS 50.000 -2.400 SPH100 22.700 -0.400 Creative 50 22.400 -0.200 DBS 14.300 -0.200 SPH 22.700 -0.100 GreatEast 12.400 -0.100 Transmarco 0.900 -0.090 DelGro 500 2.720 -0.080 Spindex 0.260 -0.070 fy percentage Mar IS <epT&T W*****8 Alah Shing R Close Changi 0.005
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      • 54 6 Index Value Change Pis Nikkei 225 Hang Seng Ordinaries laiwan Wtd *****.01 *****.25 3356.70 5951.45 +79.19 -93.45 -41.30 -119.05 +0.68 -0.83 -1.22 -1.96 Korea Comp 860.36 +3.50 +.41 SET Index 377.39 -4.77 -1.25 lakarta Comp Phils Comp ihenzen B Mumbai 467.99 1379.61 231.96 3617.68 -6.01 +13.48 -7.81 +36.85
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      • 36 6 US$ 0.5493 UK£ 0.3867 Yen 70.964 HK$ 4.2839 RM 2.0872 Euro 0.6221 Rupiah 5,478.8 Baht 23.755 Peso 27.995 A$ 1.0490 Indian Rs 26.755 Won 726.58 C$ 0.8738 Yuan 4.5465 NZ$ 1.2656 NTS 19.215
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      • 23 6 Bloomberg Gold uss/oz 291.20 Silver uss/oi 4.500 Platinum uss/oi 509.80 Rubber centsAg 125.00 Palm Oil RM/lonne 11 60 Brent crude uss/barrel 24.56
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    • 178 6 Bloomberg BEIJING Bank of China (BOC), which is trying to sell shares abroad, is chasing five executives who stole four billion yuan ($BBO million), one of a series of fraud cases that its chairman blamed on "a decade of lax management". Mr Liu Mingkang,
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    • 3009 8 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS (All prices are indicative) I Enquiries: Call 852-2973-6600 E-mail lipper.asia@reuters.com I Fund Name NAV/Bid Price Oiler Price Aberdeen Asset Management (Asia) Aberdeen Se American Opportunities 0.754 0.792 Aberdeen Se Asian Fixed Income 1.169 1.205 Aberdeen Se -China OppFund 1.003 1.054 Aberdeen Se Continental Europe Eq 1.007 1.058
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    • 257 8  -  Chan Chao Peh ICB, OUT to be delisted soon by chaopeh@newstoday.com.sg UNITED Overseas Bank (UOB) has launched a widely expected move to privatise two of its listed units Industrial and Commercial Bank (ICB) and Overseas Union Trust (OUT). The takeover bids will cost UOB a
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    • 80 8 THE two businessmen convicted of manipulating the market price of Mid-Continent shares have been sentenced to three months' jail each. Former Ipco International chairman, Dick Gwee Yow Pin, 45, and businessman Tang Hong Pheng, 46, were found guilty of cornering the shares of Mid Continent Equipment in July 1998.
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    • 78 8 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Airport Terminal Services (SATS), whose biggest shareholder is Singapore Airlines, handled fewer flights and less cargo and mail tonnage last month than in the same period last year. SATS handled 3.1 per cent fewer flights and 3.1 per cent less cargo and mail tonnage in February.
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    • 64 8 SINGAPORE and Hong Kong yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to help regulators monitor their respective insurance industries. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS and the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance of Hong Kong signed the MOU here. MAS executive director (insurance), Mrs Hauw
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    • 60 8 SAN JOSE, California 3Dlabs Inc's shareholders would be harmed by the computer graphics chipmaker's proposed acquisition by Creative Technology, according to a lawsuit Ms Elizabeth James, a shareholder of 3Dlabs, alleged in her lawsuit that the proposed sale is "wrongful, unfair and harmful to 3Dlabs' public stockholders."
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    • 79 8 SINGAPORE-LISTED Filipino electronics components manufacturer, lonics EMS, has reported a 22 per cent rise in full-year net profit to 660 million pesos, or almost $24 million. Turnover was up sharply by 263 per cent to 13.2 billion pesos as the company switched from consignment contracts to
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 169 10 Reuters BEIJING It is a roundabout route to South Korea. But, 25 North Korean asylum seekers, who stormed into the Spanish embassy in Beijing two days ago, are likely to end up there. They left the embassy yesterday in four
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    • 290 10 Agencies Plight of farmers worries Chinese Premier BEIJING The 800 million farmers of China are the only group of people who are not better off and in some cases, worse off than four years ago. That's one thing that bothers Premier Zhu Rongji after four years in power.
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    • 173 10 Agencies BANGKOK Nearly 400 Thai academics yesterday added their voice to the chorus of protests against the Thaksin government's perceived attempts to muzzle the press. In their letter to Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, the lecturers outlined eight recent incidents which, it said, breached Thais' constitutional
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    • Article, Illustration
      36 10 Reuters photo A New Zealand pest controller in protective clothing dangles from a helicopter while spraying insecticide on a wasp's nest the size of a large van on a lOOyear-old tree in Pawarenga, northwest New Zealand.
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    • 98 10 WASHINGTON British-born Muslim militant Sheikh Ahmed Omar was charged yesterday in New Jersey with orchestrating the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. US Attorney-General John Ashcroft said Mr Pearl was beheaded even before the kidnappers sent an e-mail message on Jan 30. "I feel it's important to
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    • 46 10 -AFP NEW DELHI The Delhi High Court overturned a three year prison sentence handed down to former Indian Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao for his alleged role in a 1993 bribery scandal. The judgement also overturned a similar sentence on former Home Minister Buta Singh.
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  • UPFORNT
    • 551 12 -Reuters The media tries its best to bring Japan and South Korea together TOKYO As historical rivals Japan and South Korea prepare to co-host the soccer World Cup this summer, the entertainment industry is going all out to persuade citizens of the two countries to make friends
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    • 371 12  -  Gurmeet Singh by THE relationship between cops and crime has undergone a major transformation over the years. Cops no longer limit themselves to chasing criminals. Today's new breed of policemen are playing the game more intelligently by adopting pre-emptive and preventive measures. Three
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    • 113 12 IftH 1 Wheres the bestfishballnoodle in Singapore? %\jij^mmmmmmgmm^^ your clue: It's right in the heart of fc 4^ ""■^V^ V>■ Bishan, and foodies feel like a f^S^f I/(|! v Cj I Join the million dollars after slurping |J 1 |U 1 I Central Singapore down a bowl or two B
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    • 84 13 CONTINUES TO GROW FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH EV T'' 1 Ljglt 1 The Year of the Horse has seen a steady rise in our share of Chinese viewership. ceo/ 03/o I 55% J| auS 45 o 7 ~w XO (*h II 35%' H Si FROM 56% to 57.5% to 61.3%
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  • LIMELIGHT
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      338 14  -  Elisa Chia Taiwan's Whitney Houston on beauty IF there is one question that Taiwanese singer Julia Peng (picture) has lost count of answering, it's got to be: "On my beauty or the lack of it," she told Today with a nonchalant look. That has never failed to
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    • 133 14 MEDIACORP TV Channel 8 continues to lead with its portfolio of diversified and creative programmes. On Wednesday, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire (Chinese) aired the first of a three-part Characters Special, featuring popular screen character Huang Jinlai (Don't Worry Be Happy). Their witty repartee not
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  • FAMILY
    • 466 14  -  Rachel Lo Marriage counsellors say it's possible IT is hard to maintain a relationship. The statistics say it all. The divorce rate has risen from 4,298 in 1995 to 5,160 in 2000 and the number of marriages has lowered from 24,965 in 1995 to 22,561 in
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    • 174 14 Chinese Programmes Rating(%) Rating('OOO) Channel 1 Who Wants to be a Millionaire 7 666 8 2 Ultra Protection 7 644 8 3 Don't Worry Be Happy 5 567 8 4 Health Matters VVI 5 553 8 5 News 8 at Ten 4 540 8 6 A Kindred Spirit 3 511
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  • INCINEMAS
    • 249 15 -AFP LOS ANGELES Hollywood survivor Liza Minnelli will on Saturday join a growing list of Tinseltown royalty including her mother, Judy Garland who have been married four times or more. Minnelli, 56, is due to celebrate her fourth set of nuptials, this time to
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  • MOTORING
    • 554 16  -  Colin Yong Honda's CRV plays it safe WE don't buy microwave ovens to boil water in, nor do we buy fur coats to wear for gym workouts. Why then do so many motorists buy off-road vehicles to drive in Singapore? Perhaps in a couple of decades,
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    • 159 16 WHEN it goes on sale at the end of next year, the Bugatti EB 16.4 Veyron will be the world's most powerful production car. Its 16-cylinder 7993cc engine has four turbochargers and a power output of lOOlbhp around 150bhp more than a Formula One car's engine.
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    • 157 16 THIS is the first official photograph of Porsche's new car that will be introduced later this year, the Cayenne. It represents a major break in tradition for the German sports car manufacturer. It's the first Porsche fourdoor vehicle to enter production and it's also the first to
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  • TIMEOUT
    • 386 18  -  Low Shi Ping That's music to Latam Grammy nominee LATIN America brings to mind images of carnivals, siesta and, of course, music. From tango to salsa to bosa nova, Latam music is one of the most popular sounds in the world. Why does it attract so
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    • 348 18  -  Sian E Jay by TROMPE l'oeil painting is all about "tricking the eye". It started during the Renaissance, when it became fashionable to paint interior walls of villas with life-like scenes that created the illusion of something that wasn't there: Windows looking out to
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 161 18 Three-Day Listing PARTICIPATE Indian Art History Henna Designing Sumo in Demo The Spring/Summer 2002 Collection An insight into the colourful, poetic and Workshop on the history of henna; learn Witness Sumo in Demo from laDan Featuring collections of 17 homegrown romantic world of miniature Rajasthan the proper way to mix
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 1614 20 /A=diaCorp J\A=diaCorp Afemf A* Muhammad Ali Through the Eyes of W- 4tff Tamil Silverscreen -En *ER Benton Backwards the World, Part 1 cna, 2 02 P m Bommukkutti Ammaavukku channel 5 10 Pm Vasantham Central, 9.30pm Bmt™ Channel News Asia Channel News Asia brings you this exclusive trouble looking J|B»
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  • SPORTS
    • 660 21 World number one chasing a hat-trick of three-peats Golf Bay Hill Invitational Fans savour Tiger and Daly's fine form ORLANDO Defending champion Tiger Woods (picture) took a step towards US PGA Tour history when he grabbed a share of the first round lead at the US$4
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    • 234 21 NBA Trail Blazers 132 Mavericks 106 Blazers take their revenge in style PORTLAND The Portland Trail Blazers, once on a long losing run, seem to have forgotten what losing is like. Apparently, they did not enjoy the feeling. Rasheed Wallace
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    • 122 21 INDIAN WELLS Top seed Lleyton Hewitt cruised into the quarter-finals of the U552.95 million ($5.4 million) Tennis Masters Series tournament here yesterday, once again leaving a frustrated Jan-Michael Gambill in his wake. Australia's Hewitt, who ended 2001 as the youngest year-end world number one ever,
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    • 64 21 SYDNEY Australian Rugby Union (ARU) managing director John O'Neill has expressed full confidence that Australia will be the sole host of the 2003 World Cup after its presentation to the Rugby World Cup Board (RWC) next week. This is despite New Zealand Sports Minister Trevor
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    • 112 21 CHRISTCHURCH Graham Thorpe, dropped off the second ball he faced, hit the third fastest double century in Test history yesterday as England put the New Zealand attack to the sword. Thorpe struck 200 not out from 231 balls as England raced to 468 for six declared on the
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    • 552 22  -  Leonard Thomas 1/Z\ j__ j United's 10 years of battle scars will ensure no slip up English Premier League West Ham v Man United \Liveon Ch23, 10.55pm by! leonardOnewstoday.com.sg A POTENTIAL banana skin, many think this game is for Manchester United. Fans of the Hammers have surely
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    • 332 22 La Liga Barcelona v Real Madrid Live, tomorrow on Ch23, 4.30am BARCELONA October 22, 1983 is a date ringed in the almanacs of both Barcelona and Real Madrid supporters; it was the occasion of Real's last victory in the Nou
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    • 170 22 PARIS The city of Milan has enjoyed better European football nights than the one yesterday's Uefa Cup quarter-finals served up. Fans of AC Milan and Inter Milan, with seven continental crowns between them, were sore enough already at having to compete in the poor relation to
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    • 256 22 -AFP PARIS African soccer's Issa Hayatou will announce today that he will challenge Sepp Blatter for the Fifa presidency. Lennart Johansson, president of European soccer's ruling body, and Uefa's chief executive Gerhard Aigner are expected to endorse Hayatou, with Dr Chung Mong Joon, the powerful president
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    • Article, Illustration
      420 23  -  Jose Raymond by j ose@newstoday. com.sg HE STARTED the S-League with a bang by scoring a hat-trick against Tanjong Pagar. But now, the goals seemed to have dried up for Liberian Emmett Glassco. With fellow striker John Wilkinson also struggling to find his scoring boots, Glassco and his
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    • 217 23  -  Stanley Ho NOT often is a China football team made to look second best by a South-east Asian team. So, what took place at the National Stadium last night must have been a shock to China's U-20 team. For Myanmar dominated the Chinese
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    • 114 23 IN LINE with the Ministry of Education's aim to make all schoolchildren water safe and confident, the Austswim course will provide professional training and the development of skills for those who consistently teach swimming to children. Austswim represents the Australian Council for the Teaching of swimming and
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    • 683 24 Formula 1 Malaysian Grand Prix The race will be live tomorrow from 10am on Ch24 KUALA LUMPUR Kimi Raikkonen left Michael Schumacher trailing by more than a second yesterday as McLaren led the field in free practice for tomorrow's Malaysian Formula
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    • 350 24 ROME Rome's ambassador in Turkey pulled out of an Italian work and culture event in Izmir yesterday as the verbal war heated up following Thursday's Champions League 1-1 draw between Roma and Galatasaray. The ambassador bristled at accusations by Ankara's
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